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• If there is a lesson in our story it is that the manipulation, according to strictly self-consistent rules, of a set of symbols representing one single aspect of the phenomena may produce correct, verifiable predictions, and yet completely ignore all other aspects whose ensemble constitutes reality.

  Arthur Koestler

  Reality, Self, May

  "The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe". Book by Arthur Koestler, 1959.

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• Today for the first time, at least in this country, you don't have to use those powers to survive. Our societal structure now provides the possibility to survive without using sexual manipulation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Country, Women, Enlightenment

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• The thing that is always so surprising about plays written in another century is how remarkably elastic they are. When you listen to the way in which Shakespeare attacks relationships, for example, even though the words may start off sounding foreign, in actuality they are so accessible, the motivations so clear, the resonances so contemporary. When you put it in a modern context - we could well be in a place with someone like Gaddafi or Mubarak - it becomes apparent how Richard III resonates with that type of personality, with media and manipulation, alliances and petty jealousies.

  Kevin Spacey

  Motivation, Media, Play

  Speech at the Old Vic, Summer 2011.

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• The photographer is a manipulator of light; photography is a manipulation of light.

  Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

  Photography, Light, Photographer

  László Moholy-Nagy, Andreas Haus (1980). “Moholy-Nagy, photographs and photograms”, Pantheon

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• Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best by being "with it," yet school makes them identify their personal, cognitive growth with elaborate planning and manipulation.

  Ivan Illich

  Meaningful, Teaching, Learning

  "Deschooling Society". Book by Ivan Illich, 1971.

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• I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!

  Barbara Mertz

  Girl, Cold, Calculating

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• Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system and this is plausible because when an individual doesn't fit into the system it causes pain to the individual as well as problems for the system. Thus the manipulation of an individual to adjust him to the system is seen as a cure for a sickness and therefore as good.

  Theodore Kaczynski

  Pain, Our Society, Causes

  The Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski (2005). “The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future”, p.70, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• The invisible government tends to be concentrated in the hands of the few because of the expense of manipulating the social machinery which controls the opinions and habits of the masses. To advertise on a scale which will reach fifty million persons is expensive. To reach and persuade the group leaders who dictate the public's thoughts and actions is likewise expensive.

  Edward Bernays

  Government, Hands, Leader

  Edward L. Bernays (1930). “Propaganda”

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• I think that storytelling and creation are very close to what the center of what magic is about. I think not just for me, but for most of the cultures that have had a concept of magic, then the manipulation of language, and words, and thus of stories and fictions, has been very close to the center of it all.

  Alan Moore

  Thinking, Magic, Culture

  Alan Moore, Bill Baker (2007). “Alan Moore on His Work and Career”, p.7, The Rosen Publishing Group

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• But by accident, not by cunning calculation, books, because of their weight and texture, and because of their sweetly token resistance to manipulation, involve our hands and eyes, and then our minds and souls, in a spiritual adventure I would be very sorry for my grandchildren not to know about.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Spiritual, Sorry, Book

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• If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without them knowing it.

  Edward Bernays

  Control Someone, Knowing, People

  "Propaganda". Book by Edward Bernays (p.71), 1928.

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• The manipulation of statistical formulas is no substitute for knowing what one is doing.

  Hubert M. Blalock

  Funny, Humorous, Science

  Hubert M. Blalock (1972). “Social statistics”, McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages

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• Medicine, electronic communications, space travel, genetic manipulation . . . these are the miracles about which we now tell our children. These are the miracles we herald as proof that science will bring us the answers. The ancient stories of immaculate conceptions, burning bushes, and parting seas are no longer relevant. God has become obsolete. Science has won the battle.

  Dan Brown

  Children, Communication, Sea

  Dan Brown (2005). “Angels & Demons”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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• Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.

  Christopher Lasch

  Issues, Purpose, Pragmatists

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• One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Gun, Men, Leader

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• Everything about the left is perception, manipulation, and lies. Everything. Everything is 'Wag the Dog.' Everything is a structured deception.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Dog, Lying, Deception

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• The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the manipulation of social contracts, and the control of information.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Real, Writing, News

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• If there are four equations and only three variables, and no one of the equations is derivable from the others by algebraic manipulation then there is another variable missing.

  Talcott Parsons

  Missing, Three, Variables

  TALCOTT PARSONS (1949). “THE STRUCTURE OF SOCIAL ACTION”

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• Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.

  Pope Paul VI

  Change, Men, Technology

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• I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.

  J. D. Salinger

  Love, Life, Courage

  j.d. salinger (1961). “franny and zooey”

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• Pictures artists staged their own images or copied or cut out others already in existence. The viewer took them in separately, in sometimes paradoxical waves: an original image, then the manipulations of it, then the places where image and idea intersected. This created a crucial perceptual glitch that irony and understanding filled.

  Jerry Saltz

  Cutting, Artist, Ideas

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• It's not like I'm anti-China. I just think it's ridiculous that we allow them to do what they're doing to this country, with the manipulation of the currency, that you write about and understand, and all of the other things that they do.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Writing, Thinking

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• Have you ever felt so at one with the world, with the universe, with everything that is, that you were overcome with love? That is reality. That is the truth. What we make of it is up to us, as the painting of the sunrise is up to the artist. In our world humanity has strayed from that love. It lives hatred and power struggles and manipulations of the earth itself for its own narrow reasons. Continue and no one will see the sunrise. The sunrise will always exist, of course, but people on earth will know nothing of it and finally even stories of its beauty will fade from our knowing.

  Richard Bach

  Struggle, Artist, Reality

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• By virtue of the way it has organized its technological base, contemporary industrial society tends to be totalitarian. For "totalitarian" is not only a terroristic political coordination of society, but also a non-terroristic economic-technical coordination which operates through the manipulation of needs by vested interests.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Political, Needs, Way

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.5, Routledge

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• If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation - unfairly.

  Mario Cuomo

  Smart, Law, Jail

  NBC TV, August 12, 1986.

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